East China Sea
East China Sea | |
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Chinese name | |
Abbreviation | 东海 |
Long characters | 東海 |
Pinyin | Dōng Hǎi |
Alternative Chinese name | |
Abbreviation | 中国 东海 |
Long characters | 中國 東海 |
Pinyin | Zhōngguó Dōng Hǎi |
Abbreviation | 东 中国 海 |
Long characters | 東 中國 海 |
Pinyin | Dōng Zhōngguó Hǎi |
Japanese name | |
Kanji | 東 シ ナ 海 |
Kanji | 東 支那 海 obs. 1 |
Kana | ひ が し し な か い |
Hepburn | Higashi Shina Kai |
Korean name | |
Hangeul | 동중국 해 |
Hanja | 東 中國 海 |
Revised | Dong Jungguk Hae |
McCune-Reischauer | Tong Jungguk Hae |
The East China Sea is a marginal Pacific Sea in East Asia .
geography
The East China Sea is located between mainland China in the west, South Korea in the north, the southwestern parts of Japan ( Kyūshū region including the Ryūkyū Islands ) in the east and Taiwan in the south. It is separated from the Sea of Japan in the north by the Korea Strait and in the south from the South China Sea by the Strait of Formosa .
The sea to the northwest between the Korean Peninsula and the People's Republic of China is no longer included, but called the Yellow Sea . Together with the East China Sea and the South China Sea, it forms the China Sea .
Data
The total area of the East China Sea is about 1.25 million km². It extends over large areas as a shallow shelf sea , which is increasingly filled by sediments from the Chinese currents. It has an average depth of around 275 meters. To the southeast, the seabed near the Ryūkyū Islands runs much deeper. The deepest point is in the Okinawa Trench at 2,719 meters .
In 1980, extensive oil deposits were discovered in this area . The neighboring states are arguing about access to the natural resources . This conflict led to a dispute over the possession of the Socotra rock , which is claimed by South Korea and the People's Republic of China and has been de facto controlled by South Korea since 2003.
On November 23, 2013, China declared an Air Defense Identification Zone over the East China Sea, including disputed areas such as Socotra Rock and Senkaku Islands .
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See also
Web links
- Zhu Fenglan: The Delimitation of East China Sea Continental Shelf: Sino-Japanese Disputes from the Perspective of International Law. Institution of Asia-Pacific Studies, CASS, Beijing, autumn 2006. (PDF; 61 kB)
- Kay Möller: Territorial Dispute and Resource Conflict in the East China Sea - Test for Sino-Japanese Relations. SWP discussion paper, Science and Politics Foundation , August 2004 (PDF; 58 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ East China Sea. In: The New Knaur. 1st edition. Volume 7, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich / Zurich 1975, p. 4507.
- ↑ a b East China Sea. In: The Brockhaus in text and pictures. electronic edition for office library. Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus, 2003.
- ↑ East China Sea. In: Brockhaus Encyclopedia. 19th edition. Volume 16, FA Brockhaus, Mannheim 1991, p. 310.
- ↑ The island dispute goes up in the air. ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Tagesschau link with map)
- ↑ Term shina - し な, シ ナ, 支那: (English, Japanese) [1] In: tangorin.com, accessed on May 20, 2019 - Online
- ↑ term shina -しな,シナ,支那: (German, Japanese) [2] In: Wadoku , accessed on May 20, 2019 - Online
- ↑ Term zhina - 支那: (Chinese, English) [3] In: www.zdic.net, accessed on May 20, 2019 - Online
- ↑ Term zhina - 支那: (Chinese) [4] In: dict.revised.moe.edu.tw, accessed on May 20, 2019 - Online